15 Responses to “Get Control of Mountain Lion with a huge list of command line tweaks…..”

Might be worth pointing out that I’m constantly updating ~/.osx and adding more hacks. Be sure to check http://mths.be/osx for the latest version.

Will K on August 4th, 2012 at 10:46

How would I set my MBP to ignore trackpad input while I have a mouse connected?

Anon on August 10th, 2012 at 17:10

I find nothing is working – what could i possibly be doing wrong? I’m interested in the iTunes showing notifications and the battery showing timeleft

Alexandra on August 16th, 2012 at 06:29

There’s only 2 hacks I need, and neither of them are here. First, I need my scroll arrows back. Second, I want to be able to sort by file extension within or instead of Kind (What kind of stupid idea is Kind anyway?) Anybody got any hope for me?

Many Ayromlou on August 16th, 2012 at 09:32

Hey Will,

The option is still there, but it’s been moved…..It’s now under “Preferences/Accessibility/Mouse and Trackpad”. There you’ll find the “Ignore built-in trackpad when mouse or wireless trackpad is present” checkbox.

TTYL
Many

Many Ayromlou on August 16th, 2012 at 09:42

Hey Simon,

You did not say if you’re running 10.8 (mountain lion) or not. The two commands to turn off battery percentage and to turn of time left (near the top of the list) are for pre-10.8 installations only. They will NOT work on 10.8. iTunes notifications I’m not sure about. I did not see it in the list.

These tweaks made me seriously happy. I love the snappiness without the animation opening windows (exp. in Photoshop!) & the uber-fast key repeat rate, others…

Thanks man!!!

malcolm on February 8th, 2013 at 00:47

Alexandra,

search by file extension is one of many options. Look at the bottom of that list for “other…”. Selecting “other…” will display a dialog which allows you to determine what criteria to allow for searching. The whackiest is “white balance”. Search for White Balance > n.

J mckay on February 8th, 2013 at 17:42

Lion used to allow animated gifs as a background or screensaver. This no longer works in ML. Anyone know how to re-enable this feature?

Kazuko Yamauchi on February 14th, 2013 at 19:17

These are great command lines. I wish there was a command to open “Reset Safari” in Mountain Lion.

captain on July 17th, 2013 at 14:21

The BIG change that I want BACK from previous OSX are the FULL COLOR icons in the Finder. What idiot decided it was a good idea to monochromize everything?? It’s 10x as slow to find what I’m looking for now. Bring back the COLOR.

Oh, and even more important, make OSX NOT STEAL MY FOCUS, EVER! >:-(

I don’t think these two are possible, and it’s driving me away from Apple altogether.

dan on August 23rd, 2013 at 01:38

hi there, how can I make it so that osx opens any application or finder window top left by default…is there a way?
Dan